A woman and her daughter died Feb. 14 when a fire tore through their Stratford Place home in New City.

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Even as the fire in her New City home grew more intense, Barbara Calise stayed on the phone trying to summon help as she answered an emergency operator's questions.

But as the heat, smoke and flames worsened, Calise, 78, was forced to abandon the call.

No one knows exactly what happened next that morning, but some fire officials, neighbors and family members think Calise tried to get her disabled daughter, Yvonne, 55, out of a hospital bed, into a wheelchair and out of the house. ...